Hi, been working as a temp in Silicon Valley for a company that's been begging me to stay on as full-time but that's not where I see my life. Today I made the mistake of picking up my phone and spoke to one of the most aggressive Schedulers ever, they would not take no for a answer. She said "Your the person who signed up with us, now I am calling in a favor"! To play along I asked what she was offering "We need you to go to one of the electronic stores for $6 plus a $2 bonus"! I laughed very loud, I told her "sorry currently I am working for "Tech Giant" as a engineer and can't set time aside because my schedule is very busy. She said "You signed up with us, now I am calling in a favor because I can't get anyone to do this job".
I asked her "Why don't you do it"? She replied "Well, I live three hundred miles from these shops, their in your area". I said "Did you hear what I said, did you catch the name of the company employing me"? It did not phase her one bit, personally if someone told me they were working for one of the biggest tech giants as a engineer I kind of would get the message that $8 is worthless and find another person but that's just me.
She kept ragging on me until I hung up, she tried calling twice either to yell or offer me $10. Its been four months since I've done any jobs, my stock options will get vested in December plus their matching my 401k plus giving me discounted stock(15% off Market Value). The question I wanted to as is:
Are payouts dropping further since I stopped doing Mystery Shopping in Late April or May? Why did I have to hang up on a Scheduler, logically if someone is working as a computer engineer for one of the biggest companies in the World I stop talking and move on to my next I.C. Have you noticed a huge drop in pay or is it going up?
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/14/2016 01:30AM by GuyFawkes.